Results 721-740 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: I congratulate Deputy John Halligan on tabling the motion, which keeps the issue of carers and those for whom they care on the agenda. Yesterday, while preparing for this debate, I was struck by a report which highlighted the two very different worlds the Government has allowed to develop in this country. According to this report, sales of Prada handbags in a well-known Dublin store...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: What about the third child?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (18 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No.1131 of the 18 September 2012, if he has considered the report of the independent financial consultant engaged by Sligo County Council to review its critical financial position; the response of his Department to the recommendations made by the independent consultants; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (18 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the members of the Local Government Workforce Planning Group; the terms of reference of the group; the dates of meetings of the Group since it was established; the funding that is provided for the group; the source of the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56361/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (18 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the members of the Local Government Efficiency Review Implementation Group; the terms of reference of the group; the dates of meetings of the group since it was established; the funding that is provided for the group; the source of the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56362/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (18 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total number of staff employed by Sligo County Council on 1 January 2012; the grade and job title of every staff member; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56363/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (18 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the Local Government Auditors Statutory Report on the accounts of Sligo County Council for the year ended 31 December 2011, the Sligo County Manager states that the councils 2012 budget was agreed on the assumption that a sum of €4 million income in the draft budget...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: My question concerns legislation before the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and whether it is the Government's view that a sex worker should attend that committee. There seems to be some reluctance to allow a sex worker to speak before the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers (16 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax relief for disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme is planned on being increased from the current figure of €15,875 in line with the increase in purchase costs, conversion costs and maintenance costs (details supplied) and if he will confirm that the tax relief is over two years and will remain so. [1963/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme (16 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will investigate a company (details supplied), a participant in the jobbridge programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1694/13]

Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: The family home is not an asset.

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: The decision to impose cutbacks on the further education and training sector is an extremely retrograde step. It flies in the face of the Government's Action Plan for Jobs which was announced with great fanfare last year. The plan linked economic recovery with the development of skills in the workforce. It included a commitment to give those who have been on the dole for more than 12...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Unemployment Levels (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that according to his Department's own projections that there will a 0% increase in the net level of unemployment by the end of 2013 and that even if his projections are realised unemployment will drop by in the region of 2% by the end of 2015; if he will respond to the projections of the Nevin institute that unemployment may even rise over...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Bonds (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the recent bond sales by the National Treasury Management Agecny will, in fact, increase by a significant amount the annual debt interest payments required to be paid by the state on its borrowings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1990/13]

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I would like to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I want to support this Bill because I think it represents a step forward. It is necessary as we try to deal with this issue. I do not need to repeat all of the points that have been made. I suggest that the Department of Social Protection is particularly responsible for perpetuating the dangerous myth that loads of people are defrauding the system. Those who receive social welfare payment...

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: First Stage (22 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the restructuring and disposal of certain mortgage arrears; for the retention, where practicable, of the principal private residence in instances of certain mortgage arrears; for the removal of significant negative equity debt in the case of eligible persons; and to provide for related matters.

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: First Stage (22 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (22 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012, Part 14, Offences and Penalties section 146, other than by court action whether Revenue has the authority to collect a penalty arising from (a) or (b) of section 146. [2287/13]

Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: Shame on the Taoiseach.